The “Heart” of the Matter Affairs of the Heart Today is February 14th. It’s the day that we traditionally celebrate love. It’s Valentine’s Day, named in honor of the patron Saint of Love Valentinus who was martyred on this day late in the third century A.D. But then again history...
The “Sport” of EMS Billing A Common Goal… This weekend brings the biggest sports weekend of the year. Super Bowl weekend pits two big-energy team opponents against each other with one goal in mind. Win the big one! Of course, winning the big one is winning the big money and...
Documenting and Billing “Brain Attacks” CVA CVA- Cerebral Vascular Accident or what we most commonly refer to as a “stroke” can be one of the most challenging and life threatening emergencies that we handle in EMS. The scenario is literally a “brain attack.” When part of the brain is damaged...
3 Things to Consider for your EMS Billing Program in 2014 Happy New Year! Well here we are, it’s January 2014. Happy New Year! We trust you had a wonderful holiday season. Now reality is back and already first responders across the United States have met the winter monster called...
Twas the night before Christmas… EMS Style Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a pager was chirping, not one single run. The keys in the truck were hung there with care In hopes that no calls were soon for us there. The providers were nestled...
A “Fractured” Tale That time of year… The weather alerts started hitting the phone early this morning. Starting overnight, those of us here in Northeastern Pennsylvania will be anticipating a blanket of 4-6 inches of snow come tomorrow. Depending on where you are located as your reading this post, you...
Community Paramedicine and “The Little Guy” The Buzz… Read anything EMS-related today and you’ll probably see that Community Paramedicine is all the buzz. In fact, it’s a bit worn out already as a topic and this “thing” that it is hasn’t even hit full stride. There’s no doubt that anyone...
Family, Friends and Responsible Persons That time of year… Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years is a time to get together with family and friends. In the spirit of the season, we’ll take a few lines to discuss the importance of gathering relationship and guarantor information as part of the documentation...
JFK, Sadness, Thanksgiving and EMS The Day Hope Died We thought we’d take a break from what has been a pretty intense round of documentation focus for the past few weeks’ posts in order to share some random thoughts from the billing office brain. Fifty years ago today was the...
What’s the Question? “9-1-1, Do you have an emergency?” A large majority of the ambulance scenarios we handle start with that very question. But what about the questions you, as the provider on the scene, are asking? Do you ask the probing questions that it takes to properly assess, treat...
